Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-17

'I would like to ask you what yot
have to say about it?' the young man
finally replied. "What do you THINK
it was done for?"
In an instant Mrs. Rawson was
transformed, her black eyes flashed
| fire of deadly hatred and she seemed
to culver from head to foot.
"What do | think if it," she cried
sT am glad of it. He deserved it
Rawson has turned me out on the
streets to be a public prostitute. "l'll
stand by my boy" she cried, raising
her arm with dramatic gesture. "He
did no more than any boy would do
He is the son of his mother"
Then she began to pace to and fro
over the heavily carpeted floor.
81 intended to do it myself she
exclaimed, suddenly stopping in the
middle of the room.
"Did your son know OF your inten'
ton ?"
She turned wicked look on her
uuestioner and said sharply: 81 dc
not know; he might have known it.
He surely knew that he deserved it. "
Then she grew hungry for more de.
tails OF the bloody deed. She inquired
where he was shot, and some OF the
circumstances.
81 am glad Of it," she exclaimed
'Tn front of the church; it was just
the place for the old hypocrite. Did
all the shots hit him ?" she exclaimed
with a look OF tigerish expectancy.
eyes; | believe they did"
am glad of it. He deserved all he
got"
At this juncture Mrs. Rawson's law
yer arrived, and the reporter was
promptly excluded.
LEE INTERVIEWED.
When shortly afterward young Lee
was seen in his cell at the police sta
ton he said:
81 am entirely responsible; it was
wholly my own act; my mother
knows absolutely nothing OF it. Raw
son tried to prove that my mother was
an adulteress and an adventures and
now he wanted to make out my sister
a bastard and that's all l will say
MRS. RAwsoN's RECORD.
The career of the young mans
mother is in many respects remark
able. She has been married several
times, was divorced once, and as a
department clerk in the government
service at Washington, is understood
to have been concerned in some de-
cidedly sensational incidents. 1t was
as the possessor of considerable real
estate in Chicago, that she first be-
came acquainted with Rawson. Their
marriage soon followed, that was
about five or six years ago. Rawson
is 81 years old and his wife claims
physically a wreck. Whatever IS
the course of their disputes the matter
finally went to the Courts on Septem-
Der 20, 1856, and Mrs. Rawson's long
threatened
BILL FOR LEGAL SEPARATION
from her husband was filed. The
allegations were cruelty and the re-
fusal of her husband to support her,
closing with recital of how he had
INSTALL d detectives in their home to
close it up when Mrs. Rawson should
leave it. Rawson had in the mean
time left the house and taken up his
abode with friend.
THE DEFENDANTS REPLY.
In his answer to the bill, Rawson
avowed that his married life had been
a terrible and continual drama OF
domestic calamity and wretchedness,
the sole cause of which was his wife g
phenomenally awful devilish and
wicked temper and habits OF profanity
and blasphemy which were not re-
vealed to him until after his marriage.
Going into her history, Rawson de-
clared that his wife had made false
representations to him to get him to
marry her, when she represented
that she was the widow OF Chas. G.
Lee, who left her comfortably off, and
the mother OF his children.
He further testified that his
wife was married in New
Orleans on April 3, 1866. to John b..
Slaymaker, who at the time the bill
was filed was living at Arkadelphia,
Ark, and the divorce obtained from
Slaymaker few years later was ille-
gal. Consequently the marriage with
the defendant should be declared void.
On August 5, 1886, he refused to place
any more money to her credit at the
bank and September 20 she was re-
fused admittance to his house. Since
then every point, especially in the
matter OF alimony, has been contested
with increased bitterness, the culmin-
alton being Rawson's additional
charges and to-day's horrible tragedy.
RECOVERY IMPROBABLE.
At O'Clock this afternoon Mr.. Raw
son had an attorney called in and
made his will. At midnight the
wounded mans condition is un-
changed but there is very little hope
of his recovery. Gen. f. n. Stiles,
who has been acting as Mrs. Rawson' s
attorney in her divorce case, says that
he is not prepared to state as to
whether he will defend young Lee.
He says, however, that he will stand
by Mrs. Rawson, as he believes her
to have been grossly neglected and
abused.
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A wise PrecalstiOn.